TB Cases 2020

35038

Highest prevalence 2020

Lesotho

Lowest prevalence 2020

Grenada

Top 10 Countries with TB

Average Treatment Success

79.5 1

Country with most treatment success

Andorra

Country with least treatment success

Ireland

Treatment Success by Countries 2020

The data used in this dashboard is shown below and can be downloaded as a CSV.

This data comes from the r gapminder package, and is originally sourced from the Gapminder Foundation.

The Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.

Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and it most often affects the lungs. TB is spread through the air when people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit. A person needs to inhale only a few germs to become infected.

Every year, 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis (TB). Despite being a preventable and curable disease, 1.5 million people die from TB each year – making it the world’s top infectious killer.

TB is the leading cause of death of people with HIV and also a major contributor to antimicrobial resistance.People infected with TB bacteria have a 5–10% lifetime risk of falling ill with TB. Those with compromised immune systems, such as people living with HIV, malnutrition or diabetes, or people who use tobacco, have a higher risk of falling ill.

TB incidence per 100,000 estimated all forms of Tb data; TB in data captures incidence of tuberculosis per 100,000 people.It also captures the proportion of estimated new and relapse TB cases that were notified and treated by health facilities in the country during the given year.

This dataset also includes data on tuberculosis treatment success rate (% of new cases)

https://www.gapminder.org/data/